Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a day 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 2 | By the time he is up in the morning , I have already done a day 's work … |
| 3 | Erm a little bit of steam around so you do get an impression that it 's erm you know , it 's alive and working obviously not doing a day 's work , but certainly being restored back to working condition . |
| 4 | I just needed a day 's recovery . |
| 5 | If people lose employment for a day , they would normally lose a day 's pay . |
| 6 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 7 | What they call stand-by mo they do today , they still guarantee a day 's , it ai n't much mind you but they still get guaranteed so much a day . |
| 8 | At Howard she had hardly known a day 's illness . |
| 9 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 10 | old one still had a day 's life left in it . |
| 11 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |
| 12 | Always have a day 's rest between training ; growth only takes place after the muscles have fully recovered from the previous training session , generally after 48 hours . |
| 13 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 14 | The officer I have been escorting is a most pleasant chap , and I have really had a day 's holiday . |
| 15 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 16 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |
| 17 | ‘ Billy Sullivan ai n't done a day 's work since 'e got out o' the army . |
| 18 | She has n't had a day 's illness in her life . ’ |
| 19 | The old town well merits a day 's visit , with its many handsome seventeenth-century patrician mansions and Town House facade , painted with frescoes of significant moments in Swiss history . |
| 20 | The baker who has n't lost a day 's work in seventy five years . |
| 21 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 22 | Just because you are thin and never suffer a day 's illness does not mean that you can embark on an energetic walking programme without building up to it . |
| 23 | I 've never missed a day 's work through illness in my life and I 'm still rushing around the country appearing in theatres and clubs . |
| 24 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 25 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 26 | She 'd never had a day 's illness in her life , but Timothy 's future was beginning to prey on her mind . |
| 27 | Apart from that I 've never had a day 's illness in my life ; never been in bed a whole day . |
| 28 | I 've never had a day 's illness in my life , thank you very much . ’ |
| 29 | Never had a day 's illness in your life ! ’ |